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The Wine Case

http://winecase.wordpress.com

A wine blog about everything in the wine world, from tasting notes to industry comments, by a wine columnist with over ten years experience.

• Added on: Nov 16th, 2007
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: The Wine Case
• Listed in: Food & Drink Wine
• Tags: Wine winemaking producers tasting wine blog

Recent Posts

• Ontario’s best rieslings: a collective tasting on Spotlight Toronto (and two extra tasting notes)

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 17:01 in Canada, Wine, ontario, canadian wine, white wine, tasting, niagara, vqa, riesling, cave spring, hidden bench, creekside

  It’s nice when social media pushes the idea of social forward, encouraging collective thinking and group efforts. Like this Ontario riesling project that was proposed to a small group of wine writers and professionals by Rick Van Sickle, of the...

• WBW 63: Finding my muse in a bottle of 1990 Mas La Plana

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 20:40 in spain, Cabernet Sauvignon, torres, 1990, muse, tasting, miguel torres, william blake, uprising, penedès, wine blogging wednesday, finding your muse

  It seemed like an easy theme, what Rob Bralow proposed for Wine Blogging Wednesday. Find your Muse. That’s easy, here it is: There, done. And there’s plenty of other songs from that band available on the Internet. Oh, wait. That’s ...

• Tasting Note: 2005 Catena Alta Cabernet Sauvignon, Bodega Catena Zapata

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 16:22 in Argentina, Cabernet Sauvignon, mendoza, red wine, tasting, sense of place, catena zapata, catena alta

  The Catena family is one of the major and one of the most interesting players in the world of Argentinian wine. They produce a wide range of wines in all sorts of price range, with consistent quality at all levels, from the more generic Alamos label ...

• Tasting Note: Robert Mondavi 1995 Napa Valley Zinfandel

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 09:00 in Wine, California, Pizza, napa valley, red wine, 1979, preston, tasting, zinfandel, 1995, ridge, anderson ranch

  Zinfandel is like white wines: it doesn’t age well, right? Wrong. Oh, so wrong. On Saturday night, I opened a bottle of 14-year-old zin I’d pulled from the cellar a couple of weeks ago, to set it up right and make it ready for drinking on...

• Notes from Harvest at Closson Chase: decisions, decisions…

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 00:17 in Wine, Chardonnay, winemaking, ontario, canadian wine, harvest, cellar, oak barrels, dargaud et jaegle, closson chase, deborah paskus

  I know I was supposed to write more about the harvest I took part in at Closson Chase, last week, but you know what? That stuff was tiring. For a guy my height (6′4″), picking low-lying grapes for several hours is rather tough on the knee...

• Harvesting in Prince Edward County, just in time for new rules on Ontario wines

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 06:37 in Wine, Chardonnay, harvest, vqa, government of ontario, cellared in canada, prince edward county, closson chase

  I’d call that an auspicious sign. Just as I was heading to the vineyards of Prince Edward County to harvest chardonnay at Closson Chase, on Tuesday evening, the Ontario government came out with new rules governing VQA and Cellared in Canada wi...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Joe and Shirley Suzadail

Great blog. Very informative.

Posted: January 11th, 2009 | More Reviews From joeshico | Report This Comment

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